Botswana: Technical Assistance Report-National Accounts Statistics Mission

March 28, 2023

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Botswana: Technical Assistance Report-National Accounts Statistics Mission, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2023) accessed November 24, 2024

Summary

A technical assistance (TA) mission was conducted during October 2022 to assist Statistics Botswana (SB) in the development of the strategic plan for the next rebase of the national accounts statistics. The SB will be focusing on the rebase over the coming years and has no plans to expand on what they currently produce unless adequate resources are obtained. The mission reviewed and suggested updates to the outline of the rebase with objectives and key tasks and to the implementation strategy. The timeline for the rebasing exercise was reviewed and agreed. The rebase will officially commence in April 2023 and is likely to take four to five years to complete, i.e., finish in 2028/29. The next base year will be 2024 given the timings of when key surveys will be undertaken, namely the Agriculture Census (2024/25), the Botswana Multi Topic Household Survey (BMTHS) (2023/24) and the Census of Economic Establishments (CEE) 2024. The questionnaires used in the last rebase were reviewed with the aim of improving the response rate and minimizing costs. The mission also provided some other examples of questionnaires which should provide some guidance.

Subject: International organization, Monetary policy

Keywords: Base year, National accounts, Rebase

Publication Details

Pages:

10
Volume:

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DOI:

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Issue:

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Series:

Country Report No. 2023/124
Stock No:

1BWAEA2023001
ISBN:

9798400238680
ISSN:

1934-7685

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